Over 34 states were represented at the recent Summons to Sacrifice International Prayer Conference where a depth of intercessory prayer prevailed. Beginning at 2pm on Thursday, June 10, the early arrivals gathered from to 2 to 4pm for a pre-conference prayer meeting. Thanks to all of you who came with hearts hungering after the Presence of the King! Thank you for the sacrificial offering you gave to perpetuate this prayer ministry.
Each of you contributed your own unique gifts of intercession as tributaries giving way at the confluence of the River of the Holy Ghost that flowed out of St. Louis this past weekend. Truly St. Louis became the center of the universe as intercession was made for the cities, states, nations and regions of the world. Your responses are still flowing in to WNOP. There were reports of visions, dreams, and words of confirmation throughout these sessions.
Thanks to each prayer coordinator who took the time to be with us and to each who led us in prayer so deep and so heavy that it changed the world forever! We will see the results manifested in our churches and communities and the nations. We pray that all of your expenses will be returned to you 100-fold.
Thanks to Vicki Richardson who is regional prayer coordinator for Africa for sharing her vision so fluently for the continent of Africa and the prayer that ensued her vision.
Thanks to all volunteers who worked hard and long hours to make this event a success, especially those from New Life Church in Bridgeton MO and those from South Central Regional Apostolic Church whose members rose to the occasion. May I also take this opportunity thank Lisa Marshall and Lyn St. John who gave hours beyond the call of duty for days prior to this prayer conference. Thanks to Dorsey and Bev Burk who likewise gave hours to prepare this meeting and Amberle Kaiser who gave hours to children's summons.
Thanks to each of our speakers who were greatly inspired the conference! For those of you who were unable to attend, World Network of Prayer so fittingly honored Sister Tenney for her unwavering faithfulness to WNOP for over 14 years and for serving as a charter member of the board of trustees of Urshan Graduate School of Theology by establishing the Thetus P. Tenney Scholarship which would annually award $1,000 to a deserving female student at Urshan Graduate School of Theology. Our goal is to build up this scholarship thereby guaranteeing is perpetuity. We have $2,700 given toward this scholarship fund so far. By honoring Sister Tenney in this manner, we thereby link these two great institutions, World Network of Prayer and Urshan Graduate School in one act. SHOULD ANY OF YOU WISH TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS SCHOLARSHIP, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO MAIL YOUR DONATIONS TO WNOP AND DESIGNATE THE CHECK FOR THETUS P. TENNEY SCHOLARSHIP SO THAT WE MIGHT ENSURE IT GETS TO THE RIGHT PLACE. WE ARE THRILLED THERE WILL BE FUNDS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO PREPARE FOR MINISTRY.
Thank you! Thank you! For all you have done to shake the nations! I am personally overwhelmed by not only your depth of prayer but your continued sacrifice. When I stepped to the pulpit to speak on Thursday evening, all I could hear the Holy Spirit says is, "The eagles have gathered!
During our Sunday morning services back home, a first-time visitor was healed of dual shoulder and neck injuries. She came back on Sunday evening and testified and brought her brother with her to share in the glory.
Blessings!
Thomas Suey
International Coordinator WNOP
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MINISTRY
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MINISTRY: J. Stuart and Nancy Lassetter (International Teaching Ministry), Richard and Jean Lucas (Japan/Asia Military Ministry), J. Prince and Suzana Mathiasz (Sri Lanka/Eastern Europe), Albert and Tegeste Stewart (Liberia), Robert and Jerolyn Kelley (United Kingdom/Ireland/Channel Islands), John and Nory Cogan (Philippine Islands), Lynden and Kathy Shalm (Regional Directors, Asia)
A.I.M. - Associates in Missions: Jonathan Follmer - Scotland (EME), Mitchell and Gerri Fox - Fiji (PAC)
FULL-TIME EVANGELIST: Jerry L. Hutchison - Kinder, LA, Sanford E. Hutson - Austin, TX, Marty J. Jeanice - Thibodaux, LA, Tommy L. Jefferson - Doniphan, MO
BIBLE SCHOOLS: Indiana Bible College, Northeast Christian College
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WNOP'S PERSONAL REQUESTS
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To minister to the needs of others through prayer, click here to pray over WNOP's personal prayer list.
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STATE FOCUS - Colorado
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The state focus this week is Colorado. Please pray for Governor Bill Ritter and Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall. Please pray for all district officials, home missionaries and pastors.
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WORLD NEEDS
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Oklahoma -- Severe thunderstorms ripped through central Oklahoma Monday triggering vicious flash floods that left 136 people injured, roads and cars submerged, and thousands without power, authorities said. None of those injured required hospitalization, according to Michelann Ooten, information officer for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management. A state of emergency has been declared in 59 of Oklahoma's 77 counties.
Close to 1,500 customers were still without power by 8 p.m. Monday, including 1,300 in the Oklahoma City metro area. Some washed-out Oklahoma City metro highways and ramps remained closed Monday night. Department officials urged drivers to be alert and warned them to avoid driving through water-covered roads.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported getting about 180 calls related to the flash flooding. Troopers worked nearly 30 crashes, with a total of six injuries. Several state buildings in the metro area were damaged in the deluge. Those affected agencies either closed or reduced their services because of the flooding. Standing flood waters also can be dangerous. Residents have been urged to avoid the water as it can contain snakes, insects, sharp objects, oil, gasoline, and in some case raw sewage. Glynda Chu, a police spokeswoman in nearby Edmond, said it was the worst flooding that city has seen in 25 years.
Flash flooding this weekend in Arkansas took the lives of twenty people in a campground.
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OSH, Kyrgyzstan - Sporadic gunfire continued through the night and fresh fires raged in southern Kyrgyzstan on Monday, as the Central Asian nation's worst ethnic violence in decades showed no signs of abating.
The official death toll reached 117 with 1,500 hurt, the Health Ministry of this beleaguered former Soviet country, which hosts U.S. and Russian military bases, announced early Monday. Accounts from international aid agencies and other witnesses suggest the real figures could be higher: the International Committee of the Red Cross has said its delegates witnessed about 100 bodies being buried in just one cemetery. The leader of the Uzbek community in Kyrgyzstan told the Associated Press that more than 200 Uzbeks had been buried in the wake of the violence.
In days of attacks, mobs of rioters slaughtered ethnic minority Uzbeks and burned their homes and businesses. Some 100,000 Uzbeks fleeing the attacks massed at the border Monday, an Uzbek leader said. Kyrgyzstan's interim government, which took over after former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was ousted by a mass revolt in April, has been unable to stop the violence and accused Bakiyev's family of instigating it to stop a June 27 vote. Uzbeks have backed the interim government, while many Kyrgyz in the south have supported the toppled president.
New fires raged Monday across Osh - the second-largest city that's on the border with Uzbekistan, and where food and water were becoming scarce. Armed looters smashed stores, stealing anything from televisions to food. No police could be seen on the streets, though authorities insisted some of the improvised checkpoints dotted around the city of 250,000 were theirs. Cars stolen from ethnic Uzbeks raced around the city, most crowded with young Kyrgyz wielding sharpened sticks, axes and metal rods.
Ethnic Uzbeks in a besieged neighborhood in Osh said gangs were carrying out "genocide," burning residents out of their homes and shooting them as they fled. Witnesses saw bodies lying on the streets. "God help us! They are killing Uzbeks like animals. Almost the whole city is in flames," Dilmurad Ishanov, an ethnic Uzbek human rights worker, told Reuters by telephone.
Retired construction worker Habibullah Khurulayev, 69, said he was afraid to leave his apartment in the besieged district of Osh. Uzbeks armed with hunting rifles manned improvised barricades to keep out Kyrgyz gangs with automatic rifles, he said. "They are killing us with impunity," he said. "The police are doing nothing." In another city beset by violence, Jalal-Abad, about 25 miles away, armed Kyrgyz amassed at the central square. Their stated goal was to travel to the nearby Uzbek settlement of Suzak in search of an Uzbek community leader they blame for starting the trouble.
The Uzbek border is just 3 miles from Osh. Uzbek refugees were mostly elderly people, women and children, with younger men staying behind to defend their property. Some were fired on as they fled.
Uzbeks make up 15 percent of Kygryzstan's 5 million people, but in the south their numbers rival ethnic Kyrgyz.
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A HERITAGE OF PRAYER
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"From a very early age, I was taught the importance of prayer and what it meant to really pray. Countless prayer meetings and countless family devotionals cultivated a desire within me to communicate with my Creator."
"So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning..." Job 42:12
Heritage undoubtedly greatly affects who each of us are and who we become. Great names such as Rockefeller, Kennedy, and Bush tout great conquests financially, politically, and socially. more
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PRAYER QUOTE
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We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. - William Law
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